Ramona Reeves
Ramona Reeves is a kindergarten dropout who had her hands slapped one too many times for “drawing outside the lines.” Her heroes are Chicken Little, Flannery O’Connor, Maya Angelou, Dolly Parton, Sonia Sotomayor and many other draw-it-how-you-like-it types. Her work has appeared in journals and magazines that were kind enough to read her work and publish it. These include The Ledge, Deep South Magazine, Mobile Bay Monthly, Puerto del...
Carol Reid
Carol Reid–In the spring of 2013 I’ll be spending five weeks at the Banff Arts Centre Writing Studio, working on a collection of stories set on the coast of British Columbia, where I’ve lived most of my life. I come from a green, wet place but I am equally in love with the desert and vast sky of New Mexico. Very happy and excited to come to the AROHO Ghost Ranch Retreat.
Kristen Ringman
Kristen Ringman is a deaf writer, sailor, traveler, and new mother. She is the author of Makara (Handtype Press, 2012), a literary lyrical novel about the deaf daughter of an Irish selchie who falls in love with a girl in South India. She received her MFA from Goddard College in 2008. Between her undergrad and MFA programs, she lived and volunteered in India, Kenya, and Ireland. From 2009-2011, she lived with her partner on...
Marguerite María Rivas
Marguerite María Rivas’s essays, articles, book reviews, and poems have been published in journals and periodicals, both nationally and internationally. She has garnered numerous grants and awards, including the first Marg Chandler Memorial Award from AROHO. Cited by the New York State Legislature for her contribution to the literary arts, she is widely regarded as the de facto Poet Laureate of Staten Island. Her first full-length...
Lilliam Rivera
Lilliam Rivera grew up in the Bronx, New York. An entertainment journalist, she’s worked for E! Online, Angeleno, Latina, and was the editorial director for the lifestyle site Mondette.com. She’s a PEN Center USA 2013 Emerging Voices Fellow and is currently writing her first contemporary young adult novel, My Shelf Life, a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles and can be found online...
Lisa Rizzo
Lisa Rizzo is a poet and middle school language arts teacher who manages to combine her love of words and poetry with her day job. Born in Texas, she grew up in Chicago and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area 32 years ago. She now lives in San Carlos, CA. She is the author of In the Poem an Ocean(Big Table Publishing, 2011). Her work also has appeared in such journals as The Lucid Stone, 13th Moon, Writing for Our Lives, Earth’s...
Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus
As a teacher for 34 years, I spent my life nurturing writers. Since retiring in 2008, I have been rediscovering the things I loved to do as a girl. Today, I draw, make mosaics and create mixed media collage. And I write. I write. I have a blog entitled “Her Own Terms: A Post Mid- Life Woman Writing for Her Life,” I have published my first stories and poems and I am finishing up a screenplay about a teenage girl...
Marlene Samuels
Marlene Samuels is an independent sociologist, writer and instructor, earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from University of Chicago, and worked at the National Opinion Research Center there. She serves on the Visiting Committee of the Graduate School, University of Chicago, is a member of Story Circle Network, serves on its Board of Directors, and is a presenter and workshop facilitator. She teaches research methodology for writers and...
Rebecca Scheckman
Rebecca Scheckman is an artist before anything and brings this perspective into all that she does. A New York City resident, currently the editor and director for GRITtv, an online source for reporting, where she documents interviews with innovative thinkers and doers of our times. Traversing through the New York City creative climate, she has found a niche documenting the artist in process. Her personal work is a mixture between...
Jane Schulman
Rebecca Scheckman is an artist before anything and brings this perspective into all that she does. A New York City resident, currently the editor and director for GRITtv, an online source for reporting, where she documents interviews with innovative thinkers and doers of our times. Traversing through the New York City creative climate, she has found a niche documenting the artist in process. Her personal work is a mixture between...
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